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ID: Governor vetoes $16 million for drug treatment but wants $70 million for max. security prison with 300 cages

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The services benefit many participants in drug courts, said Sen. Dean Cameron, R-Rupert and co-chairman of the Joint Finance-Appropriations budget writing committee. "The legislature over the last several years has had a paradigm shift. We don't want to be building more prisons. We want to be investing in treatment," Cameron said. "It's obvious some haven't made that shift. We're disappointed." Otter vetoes $16.8 million for Idaho drug treatment programs By JOHN MILLER - Associated Press Writer Edition Date: 03/20/08 BOISE, Idaho ? Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Thursday cut $16.8 million from two drug treatment funding bills, saying that the programs to help addicts on probation as well as some people not yet convicted of crimes haven't proven their effectiveness...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).